Don't let the unjust
and ill-considered words said here about your tardiness to speak on this
subject press you to speak one moment earlier than your nature and instincts
are ready to the utmost to do their own spontaneous work, and upon their own
occasion. Take your time, by the force of your own nature, in your own methods;
you will have all your strength in effort, and not otherwise. Don't let hasty
requirements of those who are eager for your speech move you to utterance one
moment prematurely, as your season takes its own procession. Don't speak upon
the pressure of any opinion. William Bowditch authorizes me to say that this is
his view of the matter also.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 287
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